HINTS OF TORY RECOVERY COULD SCALE DOWN PREDICTED MAY LOSSES

The Economist's quarterly survey of local byelections (p29) shows Conservative share of the vote up five percentage...

The Economist's quarterly survey of local byelections (p29) shows Conservative share of the vote up five percentage points on the last quarter.

The magazine says that such indication of a recovery is better news to John Major, because if in the May local elections the party polls no better than it did in May 1995 it could lose 800 of the 1,000 seats it is defending.

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